MAJOR GENERAL RICHARD S. "BEEF" HADDAD

Maj. Gen. Richard S. "Beef" Haddad is Vice Commander, Air Force Reserve Command, Robins Air Force Base, Georgia. He is responsible for the daily operations of the command, consisting of approximately 70,000 Citizen Airmen and more than 300 aircraft among three numbered air forces, 33 flying wings, 10 flying groups and one space wing.

General Haddad was commissioned through the U.S. Air Force Academy and entered active duty in 1981. He has served in a variety of flying and command positions during his career in the Air Force and Air Force Reserve. He has hundreds of hours of combat flying time in Operations Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom and Desert Storm. Additionally, General Haddad is the first Air Force general officer to serve as Commander, Special Operations Command Korea, U.S. Forces Korea. After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, General Haddad commanded the 711th Special Operations Squadron through operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, during which the unit compiled more than 5,000 combat hours of accident-free flying and is still recognized as the most decorated Reserve flying unit.

Prior to his current assignment, General Haddad was the Deputy to the Chief of Air Force Reserve, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, the Pentagon. In his civilian job, he is an airline pilot with a major U.S. carrier.

SUMMARY OF JOINT ASSIGNMENTS1. January 2006 - July 2006, Senior Adviser to Iraqi Air Force, New Al Muthana Air Base, Iraq, as a colonel
2. April 2009 - October 2010, Commander, Special Operations Command Korea, U.S. Forces Korea and United Nations Command Special Operations Component; and Deputy Commanding General, Combined Unconventional Warfare Task Force, Yongsan Army Garrison, South Korea, as a brigadier general